EXHIBIT 4.2
                           CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                       OF

                              AMENDED AND RESTATED
                    CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, AS AMENDED,

                                       OF

                                D.R. HORTON, INC.

         D.R. Horton, Inc.  (the "Corporation"),  a  corporation  organized  and
existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY:

         FIRST:  That on  November  12,  1998,  at a  meeting  of the  Board  of
Directors of the Corporation,  resolutions were adopted  proposing and declaring
advisable  the  following  amendment to the  Corporation's  Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the "Amendment"):

              RESOLVED,  that  Article Fourth  of the  Corporations' Amended and
         Restated Certificate of  Incorporation,  as amended, be amended to read
         in its entirety as follows:

                           "FOURTH: The Corporation shall be authorized to issue
                  two classes of shares of stock to be designated, respectively,
                  "Preferred  Stock" and  "Common  Stock";  the total  number of
                  shares which the  Corporation  shall be authorized to issue is
                  Two Hundred Thirty million (230,000,000);  the total number of
                  shares of Preferred Stock shall be Thirty million (30,000,000)
                  and each  such  share  shall  have a par  value  of ten  cents
                  ($.10);  and the total  number of shares of Common Stock shall
                  be Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) and each such share shall
                  have a par value of one cent ($.01). Shares of Preferred Stock
                  may be  issued  from time to time in one or more  series.  The
                  Board of  Directors  is hereby  authorized  to fix the  voting
                  rights,   designations,   powers,  preferences  and  relative,
                  participating,  optional  or  other  rights,  if any,  and the
                  qualifications,  limitations or restrictions  thereof,  of any
                  wholly  unissued  series of  Preferred  Stock;  and to fix the
                  number of shares  constituting such series, and to increase or
                  decrease  the  number of shares  of any such  series  (but not
                  below the number of shares thereof then outstanding)."

         SECOND:  That upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,  at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders
of the  Corporation  held on January 15,  1999,  a majority of all of the shares
entitled to vote at the meeting and a majority of the shares entitled to vote at
the meeting as a class voted in favor of the Amendment.

         THIRD:   That the  Amendment  has  been duly adopted in accordance with
the  provisions  of Section  242 of  the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.



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         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
signed by Donald R. Horton,  its Chairman of the Board,  and attested by Paul W.
Buchschacher, an Assistant Secretary, this 15th day of January, 1999.

                                             D.R. Horton, Inc.



                                             By:  /s/ Donald R. Horton
                                                  ------------------------------
                                                  Donald R. Horton,
                                                  Chairman of the Board





ATTEST:


/s/ Paul W. Buchschacher
- --------------------------
Paul W. Buchschacher,
Assistant Secretary


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                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                       OF

                              AMENDED AND RESTATED

                    CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, AS AMENDED,

                                       OF

                                D.R. HORTON, INC.

         D.R.  Horton, Inc. (the "Corporation"),  a  corporation  organized  and
existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY:

         FIRST:  That on August 28, 1995, at a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Corporation  resolutions were adopted  proposing and declaring  advisable
the following amendment to the Corporation's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended (the "Amendment"):

                  RESOLVED, that Article Fourth of the Corporation's Amended and
         Restated  Certificate of Incorporation,  as amended,  be amended in its
         entirety to read as follows (the "Amendment"):

                           "FOURTH: The Corporation shall be authorized to issue
                  two classes of shares of stock to be designated, respectively,
                  "Preferred  Stock" and  "Common  Stock";  the total  number of
                  shares which the  Corporation  shall be authorized to issue is
                  One Hundred Thirty Million (130,000,000);  the total number of
                  shares of Preferred Stock shall be Thirty million (30,000,000)
                  and each  such  share  shall  have a par  value  of ten  cents
                  ($.10);  and the total  number of shares of Common Stock shall
                  be One Hundred Million (100,000,000) and each such share shall
                  have a par value of one cent ($.01). Shares of Preferred Stock
                  may be  issued  from time to time in one or more  series.  The
                  Board of  Directors  is hereby  authorized  to fix the  voting
                  rights,   designations,   powers,  preferences  and  relative,
                  participating,  optional  or  other  rights,  if any,  and the
                  qualifications,  limitations or restrictions  thereof,  of any
                  wholly  unissued  series of  Preferred  Stock;  and to fix the
                  number of shares  constituting such series, and to increase or
                  decrease  the  number of shares  of any such  series  (but not
                  below the number of shares thereof then outstanding)."

         SECOND:  That upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, at the Special Meeting of Stockholders
of the  Corporation  held on October 12,  1995,  a majority of all of the shares
entitled to vote at the meeting as a class voted in favor of the Amendment.

         THIRD:   That  the  Amendment has been duly  adopted in accordance with
the  provisions of Section 242 of the  General Corporation  Law of  the State of
Delaware.


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         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
signed  by Donald R.  Horton,  its  Chairman  of the  Board and  President,  and
attested by John M. Saganich, its Assistant Secretary, this 12th day of October,
1995.

                                               D.R. HORTON, INC.



                                               By: /s/ Donald R. Horton
                                                   -----------------------------
                                                   Donald R. Horton, Chairman of
                                                   the Board and President



ATTEST:


/s/ John M. Saganich
- --------------------------
John M. Saganich
Assistant Secretary


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                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                       OF

                              AMENDED AND RESTATED

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                                D.R. HORTON, INC.

         D.R. Horton, Inc.  (the "Corporation"),  a  corporation  organized  and
existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY:

         FIRST:  That on  February  25,  1993,  at a  meeting  of the  Board  of
Directors of the Corporation  resolutions  were adopted  proposing and declaring
advisable  the  following  amendment to the  Corporation's  Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation (the "Amendment"):

                  RESOLVED, that Article Fourth of the Corporation's Amended and
         Restated  Certificate  of  Incorporation  be amended in its entirety to
         read as follows (the "Amendment"):

                           "FOURTH: The Corporation shall be authorized to issue
                  two classes of shares of stock to be designated, respectively,
                  "Preferred  Stock" and  "Common  Stock";  the total  number of
                  shares which the  Corporation  shall be authorized to issue is
                  Thirty-Two  Million Five Hundred  Thousand  (32,500,000);  the
                  total number of shares of Preferred Stock shall be Two Million
                  Five Hundred  Thousand  (2,500,000)  and each such share shall
                  have a par value of ten cents ($.10);  and the total number of
                  shares of Common  Stock shall be Thirty  Million  (30,000,000)
                  and each such share shall have a par value of one cent ($.01).
                  Shares of  Preferred  Stock may be issued from time to time in
                  one  or  more  series.   The  Board  of  Directors  is  hereby
                  authorized  to fix the voting  rights,  designations,  powers,
                  preferences  and  relative,  participating,  optional or other
                  rights,  if  any,  and  the  qualifications,   limitations  or
                  restrictions   thereof,  of  any  wholly  unissued  series  of
                  Preferred Stock; and to fix the number of shares  constituting
                  such series,  and to increase or decrease the number of shares
                  of any such series (but not below the number of shares thereof
                  then outstanding)."

         SECOND:  That upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the General
Corporation  Law of the  State  of  Delaware,  at the  1993  Annual  Meeting  of
Stockholders of the Corporation held on April 29, 1993, a majority of all of the
shares  entitled  to vote  at the  meeting  as a class  voted  in  favor  of the
Amendment.

         THIRD:   That the Amendment has been duly  adopted in  accordance  with
the  provisions of  Section 242 of  the General  Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.


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         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
signed  by Donald R.  Horton,  its  Chairman  of the  Board and  President,  and
attested by John M. Saganich,  its Assistant Secretary,  this 30th day of April,
1993.

                                            D.R. HORTON, INC.



                                            By:    /s/ Donald R. Horton
                                                   -----------------------------

                                                   Donald R. Horton, Chairman of
                                                   the Board and President



ATTEST:



/s/ John M. Saganich
- -----------------------
John M. Saganich
Assistant Secretary

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                              AMENDED AND RESTATED
                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
                                D.R. HORTON, INC.

         D.R.  Horton, Inc.,  a  corporation  organized  and existing  under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY THAT:

         I.       The present name of the corporation is D.R. Horton, Inc.

         II. The amendment and restatement of the  corporation's  Certificate of
Incorporation  as set forth in  Section  III below  have  been duly  adopted  in
accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 245 of the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.

         III.  The  provisions  set  forth  below  supersede  the  corporation's
original   Certificate  of  Incorporation,   all  amendments   thereto  and  all
restatements  thereof and  constitute  the Amended and Restated  Certificate  of
Incorporation of the corporation:

                  FIRST:   The name  of the corporation  (the "Corporation")  is
D.R. Horton, Inc.

                  SECOND: The address of the Corporation's  registered office in
the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street,  City of Wilmington,  County of New
Castle,  Delaware 19801. The name of the Corporation's  registered agent at such
address is The Corporation Trust Company.

                  THIRD:  The  purpose  of  the Corporation  is to engage in any
lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

                  FOURTH:  The  Corporation  shall be  authorized  to issue  two
classes of shares of stock to be designated, respectively, "Preferred Stock" and
"Common  Stock";  the  total  number of shares  which the  Corporation  shall be
authorized  to issue is One  Hundred  Twenty  Million  (120,000,000);  the total
number of shares of Preferred  Stock shall be Twenty  Million  (20,000,000)  and
each such share shall have a par value of ten cents ($.10); and the total number
of shares of Common Stock shall be One Hundred  Million  (100,000,000)  and each
such share shall have a par value of one cent ($.01).

                  Shares of  Preferred  Stock may be issued from time to time in
one or more  series.  The Board of  Directors  is hereby  authorized  to fix the
voting rights,  designations,  powers, preferences and relative,  participating,
optional  or  other  rights,  if any,  and the  qualifications,  limitations  or
restrictions  thereof,  of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock; and to
fix the number of shares  constituting such series,  and to increase or decrease
the  number  of shares of any such  series  (but not below the  number of shares
thereof then outstanding).

                  FIFTH:   Elections  of directors  shall  be by written ballot.
Stockholders shall not have the  power to take action by written consent without
a meeting of the Corporation's stockholders.

                  SIXTH:   To  the  full  extent  permitted   by   the   General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or any other applicable laws  presently
or hereafter  in  effect, no  director of the  Corporation shall  be  personally
liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for or with respect to any acts or
omissions in  the performance of  his  or  her  duties  as  a  director  of  the
Corporation.

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Any repeal or modification of this Article SIXTH shall not adversely  affect any
right or protection of a director of the Corporation  existing immediately prior
to such repeal or modification.

                  SEVENTH:  Each  person who is or was or had agreed to become a
director  or  officer  of the  Corporation,  or each such  person  who is or was
serving  or who had  agreed  to serve at the  written  request  of the  Board of
Directors  or an  officer  of the  Corporation  as an  employee  or agent of the
Corporation or as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, in any such case owned or
controlled by the Corporation (including the heirs, executors, administrators or
estate of such person),  shall be  indemnified  by the  Corporation  to the full
extent permitted by the General  Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or any
other  applicable laws as presently or hereafter in effect;  provided,  however,
that the Corporation shall not indemnify any person with respect to service as a
director,  officer, employee or agent of Provident Bancorp of Texas, Inc. or any
subsidiary  thereof.  Without  limiting  the  generality  or the  effect  of the
foregoing, the Corporation may enter into one or more agreements with any person
which  provide for  indemnification  greater or different  than that provided in
this Article  SEVENTH.  Any repeal or modification of this Article SEVENTH shall
not adversely  affect any right or  protection  existing  hereunder  immediately
prior to such repeal or modification.

                  EIGHTH:  In  furtherance  and not in limitation of the rights,
powers,  privileges  and  discretionary  authority  granted or  conferred by the
General  Corporation  Law of the State of Delaware or other  statutes or laws of
the State of Delaware,  the Board of Directors is expressly  authorized to make,
alter, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation,  without any action on the
part of the  stockholders,  but,  subject to Article  NINTH of this  Amended and
Restated  Certificate of  Incorporation,  the  stockholders  may make additional
bylaws  and may  alter,  amend or repeal  any bylaw  whether  adopted by them or
otherwise.  The  Corporation  may in its bylaws  confer powers upon its Board of
Directors  in  addition  to the  foregoing  and in  addition  to the  powers and
authorities expressly conferred upon the Board of Directors by applicable law.

                  NINTH:  The number of  directors  which shall  constitute  the
whole Board of Directors  shall be as determined from time to time by resolution
of  the  directors  of  the  Corporation  or as  specified  in a  bylaw  of  the
Corporation  adopted  by the  affirmative  vote of not less than  sixty-six  and
two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the total voting power of all outstanding shares
of voting  stock of the  Corporation.  No  director  may be removed  without the
affirmative vote of not less than sixty-six and two-thirds  percent (66 2/3%) of
the  total  voting  power  of all  outstanding  shares  of  voting  stock of the
Corporation.

                  TENTH: Special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation
for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the Board of Directors,
or by a committee of the Board of Directors  which has been duly  designated  by
the  Board of  Directors  and whose  powers  and  authority,  as  provided  in a
resolution of the Board of Directors,  in the bylaws of the  Corporation,  or by
law, include the power to call such meetings,  but such special meetings may not
be called by any other person or persons; provided,  however, that if and to the
extent  that any  special  meeting  of  stockholders  may be called by any other
person or persons  specified  in any  provisions  of this  Amended and  Restated
Certificate of Incorporation or any amendment  thereto or any certificate  filed
under Section  151(g) of the General  Corporate Law of the State of Delaware (or
its  successor  statute  as in effect  from time to time  hereafter),  then such
special meeting may also be called by the person or persons,  in the manner,  at
the time and for the purposes so specified.

                  ELEVENTH:   The Corporation reserves the right at any time and
from time to time to amend, alter, change or repeal any  provision  contained in
this  Amended and  Restated  Certificate of Incorporation,  and other provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware

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at the time in force may be added or  inserted,  in the manner now or  hereafter
prescribed  herein  or by  applicable  law;  and  all  rights,  preferences  and
privileges of whatsoever  nature conferred upon  stockholders,  directors or any
other  persons   whomsoever  by  and  pursuant  to  this  Amended  and  Restated
Certificate  of  Incorporation  in its present form or as hereafter  amended are
granted  subject  to  this  reservation.   Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  the
provisions set forth in Articles FIFTH,  EIGHTH,  NINTH,  TENTH and this Article
ELEVENTH  may not be repealed  or amended in any  respect  unless such repeal or
amendment  is approved by the  affirmative  vote of the holders of not less than
sixty-six  and two thirds  percent  (66 2/3%) of the total  voting  power of all
outstanding shares of voting stock of this corporation.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the corporation has caused this Amended and Restated
Certificate of  Incorporation  to be signed by Donald R. Horton,  its President,
and attested by Alan Jacobs, its Secretary, this 18th day of March, 1992.

                                              D.R. HORTON, INC.

         (Seal)

                                              By:    /s/ Donald R. Horton
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                     Donald R. Horton, President



ATTEST:

By:   /s/ Alan Jacobs
      -------------------------
      Alan Jacobs, Secretary

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